Enterprise Bluetooth Applications with the Ericsson BlipNet

Abstract

As you have seen in the previous chapters of this book, the JSR-82 is a great API for creating Bluetooth applications with the Java language. With any vendor implementation of the JSR-82, you can create hundreds of client-server, peer-to-peer, cable replacement, and fixed-wireless Bluetooth applications. However, this API falls short when you need to create enterprise Bluetooth applications. So what’s an enterprise Bluetooth application? Well, here are the major qualifications of an enterprise Bluetooth application:

• • Capability to handle more than just seven active connections

• • A connection range greater than just 30 or 300 ft

• • Centralized communication to the devices (also called nodes) that comprise your network

• • A means for managing groups of nodes

• • A means for session management when clients move between nodes